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Brazil's Chamber Approves Measure Making ANPD an Autonomous Regulator

The measure would grant the body full autonomy to enforce Brazil's new online child-safety statute.

Overview

  • The Chamber of Deputies passed MP 1,317/2025 by 271–127, sending the text to the Senate for the next stage of congressional action.
  • The proposal converts the data authority into a special-purpose federal agency linked to the Justice Ministry with functional, technical, decisional, administrative and financial autonomy and its own patrimony.
  • The agency would be charged with implementing and enforcing the ECA Digital, including parental-control tools, a ban on loot boxes and channels to report online abuses involving minors.
  • The restructuring repurposes 797 vacant administrative posts into specialist roles, creates a new career with 200 data-protection regulation specialists and mandates internal legal and audit units with executive commission posts to align with other regulators.
  • Poder360 reports an estimated fiscal impact of R$5.11 million per year, and filling the new specialist positions still depends on subsequent budget authorization.